Mark Albertson
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Equifax breach, profit pressures squeeze open-source community, says Signal coder
The open-source community may be headed toward a major turning point, thanks to a security breach of epic scale. When news broke this month that the personal credit records, including names, birthdates, Social Security Numbers and home addresses of 143 million people had been breached at the credit rating bureau Equifax Inc., there was outrage. ...
CenturyLink hopes acquisition, VMware deal will strengthen enterprise appeal
If telecom giant CenturyLink Inc.’s proposed acquisition of fiber networking provider Level 3 gains final approval, it will give the company a new set of products to sell to enterprise customers and will fit nicely with its strategy to be a major multicloud network provider. CenturyLink has already made significant investments in virtualization and workload ...
VMware prepares vSAN channel strategy for the server refresh wave
The installation of new servers and ancillary hardware usually follows a five-year cycle in many enterprise data centers, although there is growing evidence that rapid change in information technology structures are causing cycle times to accelerate. VMware Inc. believes that 60 percent of its customers will be going through a server refresh by the end of ...
Edge computing is the future, but security will be a challenge
VMware Inc.’s continued rise in popularity is testimony to customers’ desire for a flexible, virtualized system that can facilitate a common data structure, from the edge to the data center, from private clouds to public clouds. But customers also need their systems to be secure, and this is gaining more attention as information technology vendors ...
The FCC is happy to talk about all things digital. Net neutrality? Don’t ask.
Over the course of two full days of appearances in San Francisco this week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and three of his fellow commissioners covered a lot of ground, including 5G network deployment, small cell installation, broadcast spectrum auctions, emergency response, competition in the wireless industry and closing the digital divide. They even waxed ...
Hyperledger Project strives to reboot thorny problems of the world
What if the cost of shipping a container halfway across the world could be reduced by 50 percent? Or patient records could be available immediately in any medical facility around the globe? Or every shipment of food could be tracked mile by mile to avoid spoilage? These are a few of the problems that the Hyperledger ...
Open Container Initiative reaches ‘great milestone,’ says Red Hat chief technologist
After two years of work, the Open Container Initiative launched Version 1.0 for container runtime and image specifications in July. OCI’s foundation, formed by a number of container industry leaders, was tasked with the mission to create specifications that would support container portability across different operating systems and platforms. Red Hat Inc.’s chief technologist likes the specifications ...
Cloud control, IoT solutions part of Hitachi Data Systems’ enterprise plan
Hitachi Data Systems Corp. started with a focus on hardware solutions and supporting the infrastructure. But more recently the wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. has significantly increased its software portfolio to meet the data-driven needs of customers. As new releases from VMware Inc. and other enterprise suppliers become available, integration with servers and backend storage becomes ...
Rackspace applies ‘fanatical’ service to hosted private cloud
After more than 10 years of partnership with VMware Inc., Rackspace Inc. now runs one of the largest vSphere (cloud computing virtualization platform) footprints in the world. So when the managed service provider recently announced that its Rackspace Private Cloud was available and would be powered by VMware’s Cloud Foundation, the news was yet another ...
IBM hints at smarter storage, but the conversation is all about data
IBM Corp.’s recent announcement of Spectrum Protect Plus, protection software for cloud, data center or virtualized platforms, is more about data than it is about simplifying storage management. And the company is not shy about making sure its customers know that. “The C-suite hates storage, including the CIO [chief information officer], but they do love ...
